Well done! Looks much better! Can't wait 'til it's 100% complete!

 

looking good. that's a lot of work, polishing sucks

 

please post a DIY i want to d my exhaust

 

man ur good at polishing !

 

Looks good - I didn't think it would work out - great job!

 

That looks great!

I wish I could get the HKS exhaust and have it sound like stock w/ HFC's.

 

Wow im impressed, looks way better

 

all you did was sand it? wow, il'll be doing this soon, cuz i want to change out the resonator and keep the stock exhaust.

 

post a DIY!

 

It looks like the exhaust is stainless steel under the black paint instead of regular steel. It looks good, similar to the Stillen cans.

 

Thanks for the comments guys. I know it's not really that big of a deal, but it was a decent little weekend project and I think it helps the overall look of the rear end. I really do miss the aggressive looks of my HKS though, heheh...

as for a DIY, it's really not complicated....just time consuming. If you have an air compressor and a die grinder, it should be really easy! You can buy circular sanding discs and it's easy to get it looking like chrome.

What I did was buy the aircraft paint stripper and just sprayed the whole can down including the piping. Let it sit for 15-20 min. and the paint starts to get really soft. It's actually pretty thin, and you can almost wipe it off. You might have to scrape and respray as necessary.

Then I started sanding. I used different grit sand paper starting with 600,800,1000,and 1500 grit (wet sanding-water is your friend, helps the paper cut faster and cleaner). I never made it to 2000 because I ran out of time.
Then I just hit it with metal polish. Either blue magic or mother's works good. If I had more time, I would wet sand to 2000 grit and polish with a cloth polishing wheel attached to a drill, and some white rouge polish. You can come close to a chrome like finish.

Right now, this is only 1500 grit and hand polish. I would say in person it looks like a polished dynomax muffler. Not the greatest, but an improvement I think. I will post pics when I'm done.

 

damn jon! looks dope. im serious - want to help change my xo2 to an hks? i pay in beer

 

You bought an HKS?? Let me know when you want to swap it out. I'll help you. Two people working at the same time will have it done in no time! Jon.

ps-wait a minute, hahah.. you mean polish your X02? haha, I thought it was already shiney?

 

I think he wants you to make the tips look like you did in the other pics

 

holy shiit wow that looks really good, what all did you use, you should post a DIY!